Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Motorway, is intended-when its final 45 miles are completed-to almost halve the time it now takes to crawl along a major industrial artery (average speed: 23.4 m.p.h.). But it boasts one feature guaranteed to lure speed-starved drivers from all parts of Britain. It has no speed limit...
...pilots get their golden opportunities from federal regulations, which limit their flight time to 85 hours each month. Even with flight planning, flight delays and layovers in faraway cities, some pilots spend about half of each month at home. The man who puts it to good use can make an income stretching in the heavy five figures or build an entirely new career. Says one who does: "Some pilots use their spare time to become expert fishermen. Some become low-handicap golfers. I devote my off-duty hours to making money, of which I happen to be very fond...
Once the U.S. decides to set a numerical limit on immigration, the question should not be what groups make up this total, Jaffe said. "Even if the present quota of 150,000 were made up of one or two racial groups, this would be a drop in the bucket for a population of 165,000,000," he stated. Jaffe suggested a new immigration act that has no national quotas, but sets a limit of ten per cent of the total for any one group of immigrants...
First, it suggests that a closed time limit be imposed on certain books (they could be borrowed from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. etc.); secondly, a running time limit should apply to all high-priority books; and thirdly, reserved books could be taken out of the library for the limited periods...
...stock does not move enough to cover the costs of the put or call, or when it moves the wrong way. Then the buyer loses the amount he paid for the option. While puts and calls are primarily used for speculating, they are also being used more to limit losses, protect paper profits, and for tax advantages. Primarily, they are for the stock market sophisticate who can afford to lose the premiums he must pay to speculate...